BLYN — Elvis, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
These musical legends and their soul-stirring songs will be on stage in two special fundraising shows for the Peninsula Daily News’ Peninsula Home Fund today.
Today’s shows will be at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. at 7 Cedars Casino.
Tickets are $25 at the door.
Fifty percent of the cost of a ticket is an IRS tax-deductible donation to the Peninsula Home Fund, the PDN’s “handup, not a hand out” community assistance program.
Billed as a “Buddy Holly Birthday Party, it coincides with the Sept. 7, 1936, birthday of Holly (“That’ll Be The Day,” “Peggy Sue”).
Holly was killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959.
Performing will be The Reincarnations of Rock & Roll, a show and dance band with tributes to Elvis, Joplin and Vaughn.
Holly is performed by Raven, a Port Townsend musician, showman and actor.
Elvis is Jaymes, a Brinnon resident who has been performing tributes to Elvis for more than 20 years.
Kendra, Jaymes’ wife, developed her reincarnation of Joplin over decades of blues powerhouse singing.
Roger Olsen is Vaughan, legendary electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.
The program will be emceed by Dale Hubbard, DJ at KMAS 1030 AM, a radio station in Shelton that plays “golden oldies.”
7 Cedars Casino is in Blyn, 5 miles east of Sequim, on U.S. Highway 101.
No deductions
Now in its 20th year, the Peninsula Home Fund is a safety net for children, teens, families and the elderly in Jefferson and Clallam counties — from Forks to Port Townsend, Quilcene and Brinnon to LaPush — when they face economic or emotional emergencies and can’t find help elsewhere.
No money is diverted for administration or other overhead.
Every penny collected goes, without deductions, for hot meals for seniors, warm winter coats for children, home repairs for the low income, needed prescription drugs, dental work, safe, drug-free temporary housing, eyeglasses — the list goes on and on.
The money earned at today’s Buddy Holly Birthday Party will give an early start to the 2009 Home Fund campaign.
For more information about the Home Fund, contact John Brewer, PDN editor and publisher, at 360-417-3500.
